Talk:White House horrors

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[edit] Resurrection of this article.

About six months ago, this article was tagged with a request to merge into the main Watergate Scandal article. I felt that the discussion on that article's talk page did not progress much beyond the proposal. Soon after, this article was redirected to the Watergate Scandal article by User:Delirium. His edit summary reads:

redirect to Watergate scandal -- this is just one alternate term for the scandal, and the article just contains an unreferenced list, tagged as needing cleanup for over a year

I strongly agree that this article has been in need of cleanup and references for quite some time. However, my understanding of the Watergate Scandal does not agree that the phrase White House Horrors is just another name for the Scandal itself, and should therefore simply redirect there. The phrase, White House Horrors is a specific reference to the crimes and abuses committed by President Nixon's staff-- its coinage historically attributed to Nixon's former attorney general, John N. Mitchell. The revelation of their existence and scope, is also just one among many events, which describe the broader scandal. Therefore, I acted boldly and resurrected this article. I also removed the request to merge as I feel that a concise list of crimes and abuses merits a separate article. I feel that a brief section of Crimes and Abuses should be added to the Watergate article with a main article tag linked back here. I added a References section and a couple of citations, to kick things off. I plan on adding more in the near future, and will take a stab at re-working the lead-in. Ukulele 05:46, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

User:Delirium's contributions to Wikipedia are long and impressive. I hope he does not consider my reversion of his redirect as a prelude to an edit war. Reversions exemplify contributor boldness like nothing else! I do plan on spending some time soon adding some references and reworking this article. Should any contributor take strong issue with my resurrection of this article, I request discussion and consensus before reverting it back. Ukulele 15:47, 12 August 2007 (UTC)